March Madness has concluded with Virginia winning it all on April 8th's championship game! With your participation, together(!) our 2nd Annual “Battle of the Brackets” raised $1,400 for the East Wichita Rotary Foundation, surpassing last year’s inaugural fundraiser total of $1,250! Many thanks to each of you for endorsing this fundraiser for our Foundation, which provides scholarships to local area high school students. Your participation, with the purchase of a bracket or two or a contribution “to the cause”, will provide OVER ONE scholarship, for $1000/year, for a deserving student! Great teamwork, folks! Tony Hurtig, the husband of our EWR Club Executive, won the $100 prize for the winning bracket. Boy, there was lots of teasing at the meeting when the bracket winner was announced, especially after our Club Executive won last year. As Kim said, "Trust me! We Hurtig’s aren’t lucky in anything else, except perhaps doing brackets."
At our April 10 Rotary meeting, we also had a drawing for $50 each from two of the non-winning brackets and ….. drum roll please ….Michael Moeder and Michael Caffrey (pictured left to right, below) each won $50. Must be a lucky “Michael-thing” going on there! 😊 Just a little tidbit: Michael Caffrey is a very new member AND it was his additional raffle chance, not his bracket, that won. Very cool!
Hope to see you all next year when we "take on the Madness and battle the brackets" again!
